2 Corinthians 9
EAGER TO HELP

“For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action.” (2 Corinthians 9 v 2).

How would Paul have written to us? In the time when other brothers and sisters were in desperate need of financial support, the members of the church in Corinth were the first to volunteer to help. They were eager to do all they could to help relieve the suffering of their brothers and sisters.

Maybe today we have been so saturated with cries for help and people asking for financial assistance that we are not affected in the same meaningful way. Yet if we are to follow the wonderful example of our brothers and sisters in Corinth, we too should be first in line to help out in any way we can.

All too often it happens the other way around. When a need is announced, we jump to the back of the queue to see who will offer first. After all, someone else may relieve us of our opportunity to be generous! This must not be our attitude.

Just as the Corinthians were a great example of generosity, let us also be at the front of the queue to help and support others. May our example of generosity stir others into action so that our Lord will be glorified in his children.

May God be pleased with our generosity this weekend.

With love in our Lord
Robert